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Ever since we visited Sapsi Island a year ago, we've wanted to go again, just to get away from the usual hustle and bustle of Korea. I had a week's vacation from my school, so early on Sunday we took the bus to Daecheon Beach and boarded the ferry.
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| A passenger on the Island Ferry throws snacks to the seagulls. |
When we arrived at Sapsi island, we were taken to a place to stay, right on the edge of the beach, and we went for a walk along the beach while our the hut was being cleaned.
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| Our beach-hut and the view in front of it. |
We chilled out for the rest of the day. It was wonderful to doze to the sound of waves on the beach. Last year we came unprepared, but this time we had brought supplies, so we cooked and ate dinner while the rain poured down outside.
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| Suicide Shellfish: sprinkle salt and they pop out into your hand. |
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The next day's biggest activity, when we finally did get up at around 12 (the stormy weather kept waking us up in the night) was digging for shellfish. The manager of the apartments and her boyfriend went out with us onto the beach and together we harvested. It involved finding a small hole in the sand, digging down a little, then sprinkling salt on the hole. After a few seconds, a cigar-shaped shellfish would poked his head out obligingly. We ended up with a big bowl-full.
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| The fruits of our labour. |
I spent a few hours reading while Anne headed off with her new friends. When they came back we had a very pleasant barbecue. The weather had turned out nice for the evening, and the mosquitoes even started biting, which is what eventually sent us scurrying into our hut to sleep.
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| Anne washes up on the beach. |
The ferry had been cancelled so many times that we decided to take the next ferry off the island, so the next morning we packed and then heard that the midday ferry would be running. It was actually good that the ferry had been cancelled because an invasion of our beach by thirty university students got cancelled.
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| The inside of our hut, just before we packed up to leave. |
We got a lift down to the ferry terminal, and hung around for about 30 minutes. We could hear the ferry's fog horn approaching, and then it suddenly appeared silently from the mist, the engine noise muffled by the fog.
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| The ferry emerges from the fog. |
We boarded and managed to get a couple of plastic seats by the rail, where we could watch the seagulls. We even fed them a few snacks. Then the boat started moving and I spent a good twenty minutes taking pictures of the gulls that were following the boat.
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| A seagull follows the ferry. |
Sapsi Island is the first stop of the ferry, so the trip out was short, but the trip back to the mainland was much longer as the boat stopped at three or four more islands further out in the water. The sun had come out, and I was beginning to burn, so we headed into the cabin. A group of kids were on the ferry just for the ride, and I passed the time by teaching them a couple of simple card games.
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| Three of the kids I played cards with. |
The ferry eventually got in and we got on a bus to Daecheon, where we ate some food before heading back home to Daejeon. It was a wonderful short break, but I think I could have stayed there much longer.